For two hundred years the history of the Battle of New Orleans has suffered from the neglected state of the historiography on the War of 1812 and the static state of the Battle's orthodox narrative. This dissertation identifies and deconstructs the...

Text, September 5, 1840. The Contemplated Negro Revolt in the Parish of Lafayette. Published in the Daily Picayune. Slave revolt is reported and put down in Louisiana. A slave from the same plantation warned the plantation owner of the impending...